XP Admin Password - Urgent Fix needed

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Bob M.

Hi we have been having heat related issues with out Church's small office
PC. Lockups slowdowns etc. Doubled with novice users over Christmas.
Kapow....no booting...

I now find It will not boot or go into safe made, so go to use the Original
XP Home Cd to run repair and guess what Need an Admin Password. Seems that
the Manufacture has put in an admin Password. And yes they are no longer
able to be contacted.

I've heard about a fix by running an NT start-up but do not know how, or
where to get it.

Can someone please help me with how to fix this problem, I'm stumped and we
need to get it running by Sunday if possible.

Regards
Bob M.
baysideq@
hotmail.com
 
you are probaly better off rebuilding, if you have data you need, you could
put that HD in another machine as a slave drive and copy all the good stuff,
then replace and rebuild.
 
Hi there,

There is an issue in Windows XP Home regarding booting
from CD and getting into recovery console when the
administrator password is blank. Recovery Console will not
start when it is started from the boot CD.

Workaround:

Boot from the XP Home boot Floppies, which you can make
from this Microsoft Knowledge Base article:
http://support.microsoft.com/directory/article.asp?
ID=KB;EN-US;Q310994

It will accept a blank password after you boot from the
floppies.

If still no joy, then copy the "spcmdcon.sys" file from
the temporary diskette based fix to the c:\cmdcons
directory. Then boot into the Recovery Console.

The Password Is Not Valid Error Message Appears When You
Log On to Recovery Console in Windows XP:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-
US;q308402&

HTH
 
Bob,

Create a floppy disk with the following three files on it. This can be done
from another PC with XP on it. Copy from the root drive (i.e. C:) to the
floppy:

boot.ini
ntdetect.com
ntldr

On the problem computer check to ensure the bios can look at the floppy
during bootup.

Then restart your system with the floppy in it and the start up files will
find these files on the floppy disk and use them to start the system.

Once the system has booted up copy these files from the floppy to your root
drive (i.e. C:)

If this does not work there is a program ntfsboot.exe which can be put on a
floppy disk to change the administrator's password and I have used it
sucessfully before but it is not for the faint of heart, it's at
http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/

Good Luck!

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